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    Great documentary. As with all YouTube videos the comments are often just as entertaining. In this case, there both laughable and sad at the same time. I wonder how those proud little 'Scots' would fare if they were dropped off for the day at a barracks of one of our Canadian 'pseudo'-Highland Regiments. I'm sure their comments would go over quite well!
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    Fantastic, thank you.
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    Quote Originally Posted by slohairt View Post
    Great documentary. As with all YouTube videos the comments are often just as entertaining. In this case, there both laughable and sad at the same time. I wonder how those proud little 'Scots' would fare if they were dropped off for the day at a barracks of one of our Canadian 'pseudo'-Highland Regiments. I'm sure their comments would go over quite well!
    Well said! Or better yet, take them to Vimy Ridge or Dieppe and show them how "pseudo-Highlanders" have fought and died for freedom.

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    Quote Originally Posted by slohairt View Post
    Great documentary. As with all YouTube videos the comments are often just as entertaining. In this case, there both laughable and sad at the same time. I wonder how those proud little 'Scots' would fare if they were dropped off for the day at a barracks of one of our Canadian 'pseudo'-Highland Regiments. I'm sure their comments would go over quite well!
    Especially since the ONLY remaining Highlander Regiments in existance are one in Australia (16th Battalion, Royal Western Australia Regiment (Cameron Highlanders)), two in South Africa (Capetown Highlanders, and Pretoria Highlanders), and ten in Canada (the 48th Highlanders of Canada, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's), The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada, The Calgary Highlanders, The Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa, The Nova Scotia Highlanders, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada, The Royal Highland Fusiliers of Canada, The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, and The Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders).

    Thats counting only the Highlander units. There are many other Regiments that are titled Scottish or Scots, but are not specifically "Highlanders". So, just for the purpose of these statistics, I've chosen to not count units like the Canadian Scottish Regiment - it isn't because I don't like them or anything, I've just restricted it to specifically Highlanders.

    In the UK they've all been amalgamated with non-Highland units into the Royal Regiment of Scotland. Admittedly, many of these historical Regiments are being perpetuated by companies, but they have ceased to exist as separate Regiments in the order of battle.

    So, if you look at it from a military point of view, Canada is carrying more Highlander and Scottish Regimental traditions than the United Kingdom is.

    Food for thought for all the uber-Scots out there.

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